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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere

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XXIV.

I shall not join the funeral train, to go
An idle follower in the pomp of woe:
For why—no duty binds me? nor would he,
Their arbitrary chief, have mourn'd for me.